Thalapathy Vijay scares Bollywood - Marco answer to Blue Sattai Maran - Samudrakanni lucky charm

 

The remake rights of Baby John was bought from Tamil film Producer Thanu for Rs 10 crores and the Tamil film Their starred Thalapathy Vijay with Samantha in the lead and directed by Atlee of Jawan fame. Baby John is an utter flop. Now Bollywood and Salman Khan fans are terrified after hearing the news that Sikandar is remake of Thalapathy Vijay’s Sarkar directed by A R Murgadoss.  Murgadoss who is coming back to Bollywood after a long gap and makers have not responded. Tamil film Producer Kalanithi Maran of Sun Pictures has not confirmed this.

After Baby John, Thalapathy Vijay has become a bad word in Bollywood. Now after Thanu said that Rs 10 crores was got for They remake , many feel that Paramount asking Rs 85 crore as remake rights for Breakdown being remade as Vidamuyurchi with Ajith is not too much.

As if an answer to Tamil film critic Blue Sattai Maran, After reigning dominance in the Indian movie market, Unni Mukundan’s latest blockbuster ‘Marco’ made with a budget of just Rs 30 crore, is heading to Korea. The producers of the movie have inked a deal with Korea’s famous Noori Pictures is distributing the film. Maran termed Marco as a cheap Korean film copy.

After Pushpa 2, yet another film is giving good moolah to theatres in North India is Marco. The Hindi dubbed version of Malayalam film Marco has been doing good business and what drove the Day 13 collections is the increase in screens for its Hindi version, which brought in Rs 1.2 Cr (Marco’s highest single-day collection for a dubbed version since its release), and the Telugu version that hit theatres on January 1, fetched Rs 1.15 Cr.

The Hindi version of the film, which is rated A for its non-stop violence and bloodletting , played 1200+ shows, with Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad leading with 224, 93 and 57 shows, respectively. The Hindi-dubbed version had also released in GCC countries on January 1 reports OTT play. On January 3, Tamil version has been released. It is first Malayalam film to do a Rs 1 crore collection in North India.

Book Samudrakanni and release film on Pongal/ Sankranti for a hit. This is new belief that Tollywood has discovered. He played Appala Naidu in Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, which released in 2020, then came Krack in 2021, where he played the cruel and menacing Katari Krishna, and in 2024, he played Vibhishana in Hanu Man. He is now portraying the role of Ram Charan’s uncle in the film Game Changer, which is all set to release on January 10 as a Sankranti treat.

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Writer Tamil movie review : Worth the watch

 

 Coming from Pa Ranjith production house, Writer does talk about the police system that riddled with  caste discrimination – attitude to  RTI activists – suppression of human rights and inherent aversion to unions for lower ranks of police personnel.  Writer as advocates and criminals as well as SHO know is the pivotal post as he can  pin down a weak case or let in a few gaping holes in a strong case. Here it is such a writer in a station who not knowing that he is opening up a pandoras box by asking his journalist friend to write about a youth held in illegal custody gets caught  into a game of cover up and higher-up using him to be their pawn.

The screenplay is taut and has no boring moments. Samudrakanni as the writer , G M Sundar as lawyer, Dileepan, Iniya ( cameo)  and the actor who played the North Indian IPS officer are all very impressive. Music is apt and rightly placed. Cameraman without any gimmicks gives a straight visuals. One may say that Writer’s family story and back story of a thief are needless but I feel such distractions are needed.

I have read that Dalits in North India are fighting a battle to ride the bridal horse to the bride’s wedding. In Tamil Nadu or South , there is no such practice and this North guy taking umbrage at a Dalit girl seeking a post to be rider in the police cavalry is out of synch with viewers here. Iniya does a good job as the lady cop but does she not look too stylish for the role ?. At every point, cop and lawyer advises that  sign the confession and it can be changedt in the court hearing. Why does the writer not do it when it comes to himself?

On the whole, film offers lot of points to ponder. Worth the watch.

Directed and written by Franklin Jacob and produced by Pa.Ranjith along with Abhayanand Singh, Piyush Singh, and Aditi Anand, it is made under the banner of Neelam Productions in association with Golden Ratio Films, Little Red Car Films, and Jetty Productions.